I enjoyed so much working with the guys from Wilco, and riffing off of them, and having someone come up to me with ideas, because normally in the studio it's me who has to come up with all the ideas.

My theory is this; I'm not a political songwriter. I'm an honest songwriter.

We've heard so much about the American dream: well, Trump is the American nightmare made flesh. All the things about 'the ugly American' that we worry about and which the Americans see in themselves, it's all of that. This is a politics of egotistical display.

If you've got a blacklist, I want to be on it.

An isolationist America is no bloody use to anyone.

I try and write honestly about what I see around me now.

Freedom is merely privilege extended, unless enjoyed by one and all.